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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Around 11 years old or so. I wanted to make one of those soccer balls with a rubber band.

But I had no rubber band. Or a way to properly fixate anything to a ball.

So I took some nylon string for kites, tied it around a 2cm nail and stuck the nail into the valve of a soccer ball.

Tied the end of the string to myself, kicked the ball, the string made “twang”, and the ball rolled off.

I was annoyed that it didn’t work. So I followed the string from the end that was tied to myself… and found out the nail was stuck a cm or so into my upper arm.

Pulled it out and it didn’t really bleed much or anything. Never told my parents about this.

I was very stupid and very lucky that day

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dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I had a similar “stupid but lucky” experience where I stuck the ends of a copper wire into the electrical socket. Thankfully I was stupid enough to use one wire and not two, or I wouldn’t be here typing this. Instead, I got severe burns on my hands for a few weeks.

Thinking about it, this and my other comment, I was a majorly stupid kid that should have not lived past my teenage years. I’ve fallen out of trees, been run over by cars (twice), had my face inches from a tractor trailer on an expressway, held at gun point while hitchhiking, caught a forest on fire and put it out with my jacket, stuck down a storm drain, accidentally made mustard gas cleaning the bathroom…

I’m either lucky, cursed, or possibly a cat. 🐱

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- janAkali@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I was stupid enough to use one wire and not two, or I wouldn’t be here typing this
  
  Well, I was smarter, but, thankfully, still here.
  I was maybe 5 years old when one day I decided for some reason that I have to know how the electricity works “first hand”. So I took an electrical plug with a wire from dad’s tool box. It had two exposed copper ends. I plugged it in the outlet and while trying to inspect the “electricity” flow I, most likely accidentaly, have completed the circuit with my hand.
  
  Interesting how the experience wasn’t painful it’s just muscles in your body get tense and you literally can’t drop the wire or move at all. Thank god my Dad was around and maybe 10 seconds after I got shocked he pulled the plug. I had no serious injuries: just burns, a bit of shock and a lifelong lesson.
  
  P.S. It was a 220V outlet too. But I’m not sure if it’s more dangerous than the US ones.
  
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  - stratoscaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah 220V is more dangerous because it doubles the current going through your body.
    
    I = V / R
    
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- aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That is quite the collection of misfortunes, wow
  
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